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The innovative design leverages an advanced chipset,
featuring 2.56Tbps of switching and 1,428Mpps of frame
forwarding performance.
Benefits
Introducing the Compact Form-Factor concept, the VSP
8400 provides a very high-capacity, high-performance
connectivity solution for mid-sized campus networks.
The VSP 8400 also natively supports the Extreme Networks
Fabric Connect technology, whose benefits include:
• Makes the need to configure network-wide
VLANs obsolete
• Replaces multiple legacy protocols with this one single
unified technology
• Removes the risk of network loops
• Delivering an Edge-only provisioning model
which seamlessly integrates with orchestration
and automation
• Fully optimizing all links and all devices
enabling businesses to get the most out of
infrastructure investments
Traditionally, provisioning new network services requires
engineers to touch every device in the service path,
configuring each device to enable both the active and
redundant links. The bigger the network the more complex
and risky this becomes.
Leveraging Fabric Connect delivers fundamental change.
Rather than the network appearing as a mass of individual
devices it becomes a single cloud, so that engineers
only need to touch the unique device that is providing
service directly to the end-point. Fabric Connect instantly
propagates all of the end-point's service attributes to every
other node within the cloud.
System Compatibility
From a software perspective, the VSP 8400 Series was
introduced with the VOSS 4.2 software release; this is,
therefore, the minimum level of software available to
operate the Switch. The recent VOSS 7.1 release delivers the
following major enhancements:
• Application Telemetry
• VXLAN VTEP Hardware Configuration and Management
using OVSDB
Application Telemetry
Application Telemetry is a unique feature of
ExtremeAnalytics that enables the ExtremeSwitching
infrastructure to participate in the forwarding and
analysis of network application flows. By combining
packet flow information from the VSP switch along with
deep packet inspection abilities of ExtremeAnalytics, it
provides actionable insights into network and application
performance. This all without the need for expensive
sensors or collectors. With this release, an Application
Telemetry agent on the VSP can now work in tandem with
ExtremeAnalytics to deliver this granular visibility into
application performance, users, locations and devices.
Features and Capabilities
• Flexible support for up to 96 ports of 10 Gigabit
Ethernet, 24 ports of 40 Gigabit Ethernet or up to 8
ports of 100 Gigabit Ethernet
• Hot-swappable Ethernet Switch Modules
• Non-blocking, wire-speed switching architecture
• Integrated design that is optimized for low latency
• Flexible table architecture delivers MAC, ARP, and IP
Routing scalability
• Feature-rich support for conventional VLAN, Link
Aggregation, Spanning Tree technologies
• Support for IP Routing techniques including Static,
RIP, OSPF, eBGP, BGP+, ECMP, DvR/VRRP, PIM-SM/
SSM, and VRF. Additionally, supports Static, RIPng,
OSPFv3, BGPv6 Peering, ECMP, VRRP, and VRF for
IPv6 deployments
• IPv6-optimized Hardware
• Extreme Networks Switch Cluster technology supports
Triangle and Square configurations, with both Layer 2
and Layer 3 functionality
• Extreme Networks Fabric Connect technology supports
L2 Virtual Service Networks (VSNs), Layer 3 Virtual
Service Networks, Inter-VSN Routing, IP Shortcut
Routing, IP Multicast-over-Fabric Connect and Fabric
Connect-PIM Gateway, Fabric Attach Server and Client,
Fabric Extend, and Zero-Touch Fabric Connect
• MACsec and Enhanced Security Mode options
• High Availability Power and Cooling
• Up to 2 field-replaceable, hot-swappable AC or DC
internal Power Supplies
• 4 field-replaceable Fan Modules